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The Limits of Grammaticalization.
The earliest use of the term "grammaticalization" was to refer to the process whereby lexical words of a language (such as English keep in "he keeps bees") become grammatical forms (such as the auxiliary in "he keeps looking at me"). Changes of this kind, which involve...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
1998.
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| Colección: | Typological studies in language ;
v. 37. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The earliest use of the term "grammaticalization" was to refer to the process whereby lexical words of a language (such as English keep in "he keeps bees") become grammatical forms (such as the auxiliary in "he keeps looking at me"). Changes of this kind, which involve semantic fading and a downshift from a major to a minor category, have generally been agreed to come under the heading of grammaticalization. But other changes that equally contribute to new grammatical forms do not involve this kind of fading. In recent years, a debate has arisen over how to constrain the term theoretically. Is. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (308 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789027275578 9027275572 1283312220 9781283312226 9786613312228 6613312223 |
| ISSN: | 0167-7373 ; |